What I thought was a minor issue turned out to be more when I ran Disk Utility and the message came back to back up important files and reformat the hard drive. Thus began the journey to start from scratch on my MacBook Air that was little more than a year old. Was I prepared for disaster?

With today’s release of OS X 10.7 aka “Lion,” Apple has kept their promise to release it to everyone in July. With a $29 cost, more iPad/iPhone-like features and unlimited installs on all computers using the same App Store ID, it sure sounds attractive. Furthermore, summer is a great time to do the upgrade. The reason - it pretty much renders your computer unusable for up to 5 days after the install.

The key to finding what you’re looking for is to know where you put it. When it comes to computer files, sometimes a folder structure is just not adequate. For digital photos, we have many programs that allow us to edit the metadata embedded in the filename to tag each picture for easy retrieval by searching for all photos with certain tags. When it comes to all other digital files, I have never found a good tagging solution until stumbling across TAGS by Gravity Applications.

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I started this site in 2009 to write about Glaucoma, Health IT (EMR, EHR), Technology and to host my podcast series "Talking About Glaucoma." There is a shortcut to this blog to make it easier to find http://iguy.tv/blog.

I am a glaucoma sub-specialized Ophthalmologist and have a full time clinical practice at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic of the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. I have a longtime interest in the use of technology to help in medical care as well as in Education. In addition, I was a very early adopter and developer of Electronic Medical Record systems who has lectured internationally on the topic of making the transition to EMRs in daily practice.